Constantine wanted his new city to be the biggest and the best. I'm walking in what used to be the mighty Hippodrome, a chariot racing track, and it's here up to 80,000 spectators would come face ...

Sultan Ahmet Square in Istanbul, Turkey, is the former site of the famed Hippodrome of Constantine, where chariots once furiously raced. Games likewise formed an important religious role in the ...

EXCAVATIONS AT THE HIPPODROME, CONSTANTINOPLE ... the Persians at Plataea in 479 B.C., and was brought from Delphi by Constantine. It is interesting to note that an examination of these three ...